Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them

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By BeauHDOct 16, 2024, 6:02 pm170 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company's bankruptcy, a community of tinkerers and reverse engineers are probing the operating system to learn how it works. Naturally, one of the first things people…

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